Club Legend

Yes - with with video review to be a part of it. Player infringing to be immediately sent off (and replaced) and not able to be return to the field for a period of 5 minutes. During that 5 minutes the video reviewer to determine whether player can be part of future interchange rotations or not.

I would expect around 1 player per week to be initially sent off but less than 5 across the entire year not be allowed to return to the field of play for the remainder of the game.

Club Legend

If we have learnt anything from Score Reviews, VAR in Soccer and the Bunker in NRL it's that adding an additional human element, regardless of how good the technology is, only leads to more controversy and errors in judgement.

The issue surrounds where you set the line for a send off. There is too much grey area for there to be any kind of consistency.

Rookie

Definately Yes! The basic logic of a send off rule is impossible to logically argue against. A player should not be allowed to take out an opposition player, leave that team 1 player down and then the offender continues his merry way for the rest of the game. Works well in much older game of Soccer. If someone suggested getting rid of it in Soccer they would be ridiculed.

Yeah, guessed Jonas was the maybe - all good. The other 3, no issues at all with a red card. The "football act" test is probably what should be used, and it should come down to there being no subject for debate (in my opinion). I can definitely see how you put Jonas in that group though.

pretty hard to get a bugg/hall/gaff type of strike wrong. A red card isnt going to be applied to dangerous tackle or rough conduct types of things. I worry for anyone who cant see how different those types of things are that they think there will be trouble distinguishing them.

Premium Platinum

Yes
But only because I think the umps shouldn't be limited in their authority to control the game if necessary. I would regard it as a reserve power, used rarely if ever, where a player has offended and is at risk if re-offending in game.

Norm Smith Medallist

pretty hard to get a bugg/hall/gaff type of strike wrong. A red card isnt going to be applied to dangerous tackle or rough conduct types of things. I worry for anyone who cant see how different those types of things are that they think there will be trouble distinguishing them.

Club Legend

In principal I like the idea of penalising poor behaviour and leveling the playing field should that behaviour put a team one man down, but hell no!. The AFL will make a shit show of it, they need to focus on getting normal umpiring right.